McQueen v. Commonwealth’s Empirical Analysis
1984
Citation profile
5 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 58 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably McQueen v. Scroggy (1996), 105 Wash. 2d 398 - State v. Jeffries (1986)
5 federal appellate · 50 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. Matlock · Taylor v. Louisiana · Gall v. Commonwealth · Gall v. Kentucky · Meadows v. Commonwealth
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 58 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
““It would, of course, behoove the appellant to be tried for the murder of a statistic, but we find no error in bringing to the attention of the jury that the victim was a living person, more than just a nameless void left somewhere on the face of the community.” Id.”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.